Thompson  Hau 


The  Four- Year 
Courses  of  Study 


Given  by  the 

New  Hampshire  College 

of 

Agriculture  and  the  Mechanic  Arts 


-Durham 


Circular  15 
May,  1898 


I.  Course  in  Agriculture. 


STUDIES. 

Agriculture 

Algebra 

Bacteria 

Birds 

Botany 

Butter-making 
Chemistry 
Constitutional  Law 
Dairying 

Domestic  Animals 
Drawing 

Diseases  of  Crops 

English  Language 

English  Literature 

Ethics 

Fertilizers 

Floriculture 

Forage  Crops 

Forestry 

French 

Fruits 

Geology 

German 

Insects 

Laws  of  Business 
Logic 

Meteorology 
Minerals 
Military  Tactics 
Physics,. 

Political  Economy 

Roads 

Soils 

Stock-feeding 
Surveying 
Wood  Working 
Vegetables 
Zoology 


This  course  is  designed  to  give  a 
training  in  agriculture  that  is  thorough- 
ly practical  as  well  as  scientific,  with  as 
much  general  educational  study  as  is 
possible. 

During  the  last  few  years  the  course 
has  been  strengthened  by  the  addition 
of  new  studies,  by  great  improvement 
in  facilities  for  practical  instruction,  and 
by  increasing  the  number  of  instructors. 
Students  in  this  course  study  with  six- 
teen members  of  the  faculty  or  other 
instructors. 

Graduates  from  this  course  have  be- 
come successful  farmers,  managers  of 
farms  and  of  creameries,  and  experiment 
station  investigators. 


IL  Course  in  Mechanical  Engineering* 


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STUDIES* 

Algebra 

Analytic  Geometry 
Applications  of  Electricity 
Carpentry 

Chemical  Laboratory 
Chemistry 

Descriptive  Geometry 

Differential  Calculus 

Dynamos 

Electricity 

Electro-motors 

English  Language 

English  Literature 

Free-hand  Drawing 

French 

Gas  Engine 

Geometry 

German 

Heat 

Heat  Motors 
Integral  Calculus 
Joinery 
Light 

Machine  Design 
Materials  of  Construction 
Mechanical  Drawing 
Mechanical  Laboratory 
Mechanics 

Mechanics  of  Engineering 

Mechanism 

Metal  Work 

Military  Tactics 

Mineralogy 

Moulding 

Pattern  Making 

Perspective  Drawing 

Physical  Laboratory 

Physics 

Political  Economy 
Sound 

Steam  Engine 
Surveying 
Thermodynamics 
Trigonometry 


The  special  object  of  the  course  is  to 
educate  young  men  in  the  scientific 
branches  relating  to  the  design,  con- 
struction, care,  and  operation  of  ma- 
chinery. 

The  subjects  studied  may  be  broadly 
divided  into  (i)  the  mathematical,  form- 
ing the  foundation  of  the  course  ; (2)  the 
technical,  pertaining  directly  to  the  pro- 
fessional work  of  the  engineer  ; and  (3) 
the  general,  having  less  direct  bearing 
upon  the  professional  work,  but  afford- 
ing the  student  greater  breadth  of  edu- 
cation, and  fitting  him  for  the  larger 
duties  of  citizenship. 

The  study  of  the  scientific  principles 
underlying  the  work  of  the  engineer  is 
accompanied  throughout  the  course  by 
actual  practice  in  mechanical  operations 
and  in  scientific  research.  In  the  work- 
shops the  student  learns  the  use  of  tools 
for  working  in  wood  and  in  metals.  In 
the  mechanical  laboratory  he  makes 
tests  of  the  properties  of  materials,  of 
the  power  of  steam  engines,  pumps,  dy- 
namos, and  other  machines.  In  the 
chemical  and  the  physical  laboratories 
he  learns  by  experiment  the  effects  of 
the  operation  of  the  forces  of  nature. 

Recent  graduates  of  the  course  are 
occupied  as  civil,  mechanical,  and  elec- 
trical engineers,  draftsmen,  and  ma- 
chine-shop foremen. 


III.  Course  in  Electrical  Engineering 


STUDIES. 

Algebra 

Analytic  Geometry 
Applications  of  Electricity 
Chemistry 

Descriptive  Geometry 

Dynamics 

Electricity 

Electro-motors 

English  Language 

English  Literature 

Free-hand  Drawing 

French 

Geometry 

German 

Heat 

Heat  Motors 
Integral  Calculus 
Light 

Materials  of  Construction 
Mechanical  Drawing 
Mechanics 

Mechanics  of  Engineering 

Mechanism 

Metal  Work 

Military  Tactics 

Mineralogy 

Perspective  Drawing 

Physics 

Political  Economy 

Sound 

Surveying 

Theoretical  Electricity 
Thermodynamics 
Trigonometry 
Wood  Work 


The  aim  of  the  course  is  to  meet  the 
needs  of  young  men  who  intend  to  enter 
the  practice  of  electricity  in  its  various 
applications. 

The  basis  of  the  course  is  physics,  es- 
pecially its  electrical  side,  mathematics, 
and  mechanical  engineering. 

The  general  education  of  the  student 
is,  however,  kept  in  mind,  and  the  sub- 
ject matter  of  the  junior  and  senior  years 
is  intended  not  only  to  strengthen  this 
part  of  the  development,  by  teaching 
him  to  think  and  act  for  himself,  but 
also  to  awaken  a lively  and  intelligent 
interest  in  the  work  before  him. 


IV.  Course  in  Technical  Chemistry. 


STUDIES. 

Algebra 

Assaying 

Blowpipe  Analysis 
Calculus 

Chemical  Philosophy 

Dynamos 

Electro-Motors 

Electric  Measurements 

English  Language 

English  Literature 

Free-hand  Drawing 

French 

Geology 

Geometry 

German 

German  Chemical  Journals 
Heat 

Industrial  Chemistry 
Inorganic  Chemistry 
Light 

Mechanical  Drawing 

Mechanics  of  Engineering 

Mechanism 

Metal  Work 

Military  Tactics 

Mineralogy 

Organic  Chemistry  Lectures 
Physical  Chemistry 
Physical  Laboratory 
Physics 

Physiological  Chemistry 
Political  Economy 
Qualitative  Analysis 
Quantitative  Analysis 
Sanitary  Chemistry 
Thermodynamics 
Trigonometry 
Wood  Work 


The  course  in  Technical  Chemistry  is 
designed  to  give  thorough  training  in 
the  science  of  chemistry  and  its  allied 
subjects,  and  to  meet  the  requirements 
of  the  chemical  engineer. 

Excellent  laboratory  facilities  are  pro- 
vided, furnished  with  the  most  modern 
apparatus.  The  laboratories  are  also 
supplied  through  pipes  with  water,  gas, 
suction,  high  and  low  pressure  steam, 
and  are  wired  to  use  any  electric  current 
required. 

Positions  in  colleges,  experiment  sta- 
tions, sugar  houses,  fertilizer  works, 
and  manufacturing  establishments  have 
been  filled  by  graduates  from  the  chem- 
ical courses,  while  others  have  used 
these  courses  as  a preparation  for  the 
medical  profession  or  for  study  abroad. 


V.  The  General  Course. 


This  course  gives  to  students  an  op- 

portunity  to  take  parts  of  the  courses  in 

Agriculture  and  the  Mechanic  Arts ; to 

pursue  the  study  of  English,  French, 

STUDIES* 

German,  and  history  each  for  two  or 

Agriculture  (elective) 
Algebra 

American  Literature 

more  years ; to  devote  to  philosophy 

Analytic  Geometry 
(elective) 

nearly  two  years,  and  to  mathematics 

Astronomy 

Botany 

Calculus  (elective) 

and  the  sciences  the  time  usually  al- 

Chemistry 

Constitutional  Law 

lowed  in  colleges.  With  its  arrange- 

Drawing 

English  Literature 

Ethics 

ment  of  elective  studies,  it  is  fitted  to 

French 

Geology 

serve  at  the  same  time  as  a course  for 

Geometry 

German 

women  and  as  a preparation  for  teaching, 

History 

History  of  Philosophy 
International  Law 

professional  study,  or  for  business  life. 

Laws  of  Business 

Logic 

Meteorology 

Several  of  the  recent  graduates  from 

Mineralogy 

Military  Tactics 

this  course  have  engaged  in  teaching. 

Physics 

Political  Economy 
Psychology 

Others  have  taken  graduate  courses  or 

Roads  (elective) 
Surveying 

Wood  Working 

Zoology 

entered  business  or  editorial  work. 

3* 

Conant  Haee  (Science  Buieding). 

Shops  and  Power  Station. 

Thompson  Hale.  Nesmith  Haee  (Experiment  Station). 


